PE Sport Funding

Belford Primary School received £16,750 in 2023 – 2024 to support PE and sport in school.

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer. This means that we should use the premium to:

  • develop or add to the PE and sport activities that school already offers

  • make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

For example we can use the funding to:

  • hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers

  • provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively

  • introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport support and involve the least active children in after school clubs.

  • run sport competitions

  • increase pupils’ participation in the School Games

  • run sports activities with other schools

In 2023-24 we spent the funding on:

  • Qualified coaches to deliver PE lessons and provide CPD for staff.
  • Participation in inter-school sporting events
  • Participation in Commando Joe's Character Education sessions. 
  • Providing sporting after school clubs.
  • Weekly yoga sessions for Reception, KS1 and KS2
  • Purchasing  and maintaining PE equipment including bikes. 
 Please refer to the attached Sports Premium 2023-2024 document for further details. 
 

 Impact of funding:

  • Every child from Nursery to Year 6 does a minimum of two hours of curriculum PE each week.

  • Children participate in a range of extra-curricular sports clubs. These include gymnastics, netball, rugby, running and multi-skills.

  • Our children take part in a number of different inter-school competitions including football, netball, cross-country and skipping.

  • Our school has been awarded the Bronze School Games mark. This is a Government accredited scheme for schools which recognises our PE and sports provision

  • Having observed external PE coaches teaching the children tag rugby, gymnastics, dance, cricket, football and tennis, our teachers are now much more confident coaching these sports.

  • Children at Belford Primary school have regular swimming sessions and become confident swimmers by the time they leave us in year 6. 100% of our children can use a range of strokes effectively and swim 25m by the time they leave us. 100% of our children are able to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations at the end of Year 6.